This is such a funny ongoing story, Bruce. Great come back by the bookstore owner. Keep us posted on the "Walker Pin-ups that enraged Canadian Women!". Cheers, Christine
On Jun 20, 2012, at 12:16 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > A few weeks after an old lady attacked my bookstore owner friend with > the crumpled-up ball of my work comes word of a fresh complaint. > > A number of my more recent images, printed on canvas and framed, are > hung in a store window down on Lakeshore Road in Toronto (not far from > Frank). When Candi and Jim, the store owners, put them up I warned > them about the Bookstore Versus Little Old Lady episode and pointed > out that two of the images in their windows were large renditions of > my pin-ups. They laughed and said something to the effect that "Oh > don't worry: this is the Lakeshore. Anything goes here." > > So apparently last Friday a dual-ponytailed young woman, 19 or 20, > came into the store and waited patiently to get Candi's attention. She > insisted that those pin-up images were inappropriate and should be > removed from the window. Candi said "rubbish" and the girl said, "but > they are in their underwear -- women and children could see them!" > > Candi, displaying her stubborn and mischievous streak, retorted that > there's an enormous illuminated billboard down near the Gardiner > Expressway (a 6-lane elevated highway that runs right through downtown > Toronto) showing a man wearing only his Stanfield undershorts and that > if she could get them to remove that, Candi would remove my pin-ups. > :-) > > The girl left. But maybe she'll return with a mob? Stay tuned ... > > > [This is one of the offending images: http://flic.kr/p/c6B7mj > And the other: http://flic.kr/p/bqUuwm ] > > -- > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
